Bruce Campbell's Horror Film Festival Announces Full lineup, including U.S. Premiere of WOLFCOP!

Rosemont, IL – August 7th, 2014 – The first ever Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival, running August 21-24, 2014 in Rosemont, IL is excited to announce the full lineup of screenings, special guests, panels, and events, The four-day festival, presented by The Awesome Fest, will coincide with Wizard World Chicago Comic Con and will feature the best (and bloodiest) in independent horror cinema.

Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival is thrilled to kick off the festival with the U.S. Premieres of both Lowell Dean’s hilarious & crowd-pleasing WOLFCOP & Director Richard Bates Jr’s (Excision) haunted house comedy, SUBURBAN GOTHIC! The festivities come to a close on a much darker note, Sunday, August 24th with the Chicago premiere of the brutally awesome supernatural revenge tale SAVAGED, from local filmmaker Michael S. Ojeda.

"I'm pleased as punch to partner with Wizard World and The Awesome Fest to bring you the finest in modern day carnage and mayhem flicks", said Bruce Campbell. "Drop by and have yourself a groovy time!"

The festival will take place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, the Muvico Rosemont, and inside the Dome at Rosemont Ballpark.

Tickets for ALL screenings are free to attend with admission to Wizard World Chicago Comic Con. An extremely limited number of festival badges (only $50!) and single tickets for all films, are on sale now at http://wizardworld.ticketleap.com/awesomefest.

Feature Presentations:

Thursday, August 21
7:30PM SUBURBAN GOTHIC U.S. Premiere
(Director: Richard Bates Jr., Writers: Richard Bates Jr., Mark Bruner)
Raymond can channel the paranormal, but he’s afraid of chatting with a cute girl.. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorizes the small town, Ray recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to help solve the mystery. From the director of the admirably strange Excision, and starring Matthew Gray Gubler, Ray Wise, and Kat Dennings.
LOCATION: Muvico Rosemont, 9701 Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018

9:30PM WOLFCOP U.S. Premiere
(Director: Lowell Dean, Writer: Lowell Dean)
It's not unusual for alcoholic cop Lou Garou to black out and wake up in unfamiliar surroundings, but lately things have taken a strange turn. Crime scenes seem oddly familiar. Lou's senses are heightened, and when the full moon is out, he's a rage-fueled werewolf. WOLFCOP is one cop's quest to become a better man...one transformation at a time.
LOCATION: Muvico Rosemont, 9701 Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018

Friday, August 22
5:30PM CYBERNATURAL Special Screening
(Director: Levan Gabriadze, Writer: Nelson Greaves)
While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. A first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead. Told entirely from a young girl's computer desktop, Cybernatural redefines 'found footage' for a new generation of teens. From producer Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted).
LOCATION: Room 14 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

7:15PM INNER DEMONS Chicago Premiere
(Director: Seth Grossman, Writer: Glenn Gers)
Inner Demons follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. Director Seth Grossman was a producer on A&E’s award winning series “Intervention,” which certainly lends an air of authenticity to a gradually more unpredictable horror story.
LOCATION: Room 14 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

Saturday, August 23
12:00PM MEET ME THERE Chicago Premiere
(Director: Lex Lybrand, Writer: Brandon Stroud)
After several years of sexual dysfunction, Ada and her boyfriend, Calvin travel to her hometown in rural Oklahoma in the hopes of piecing together her fragmented childhood memories. They find their answers, but can they find their way back home? Starring WWE’s Goldust & DC Comic’s Jill Thompson.
LOCATION: Room 14 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

4:00PM EXTRATERRESTRIAL Chicago Premiere
(Director: The Vicious Brothers, Writers: The Vicious Brothers)
A group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods find themselves terrorized by alien visitors, who promptly chase everyone all over the place. So it’s a slasher movie, a suspense thriller, and a pretty gruesome alien abduction tale all at once. Plus it’s got some solid humor and an amazing final shot. From the directors of the found footage horror flick Grave Encounters. Oh, also Michael Ironside pops up!
LOCATION: Room 14 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

8:00PM THE EVIL DEAD MARATHON!
The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead 2 (1987), and Army of Darkness (1992)
You’ve almost definitely seen the Evil Dead movies before, but we guarantee you’ve never seen them like this! Join us under The Dome at Rosemont Ballpark as we screen the original entire Evil Dead trilogy on a giant 30 foot movie screen.
Special surprises, and guests TBA. This marathon is completely FREE for all to attend! No badges or Wizard World ticket necessary.
LOCATION: The Dome at the Ballpark, 34 Jennie Finch Way, Des Plaines, IL 60018

11:30PM DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS. DEAD
(Director: Tommy Wirkola, Writers: Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Tommy Wirkola)
If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you'd have to assume that things couldn't get much worse. In Martin's case, that was only the beginning. From the director of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and (of course) Dead Snow.
LOCATION: Muvico Rosemont, 9701 Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018

Sunday, August 24:
1:00PM KILLERS Chicago Premiere
(Directors: The Mo Brothers, Writers: Takuji Ushiyama, Timo Tjahjanto) A dark look into the minds of two men with nothing in common: Nomura, a self-obsessed serial killer residing in Tokyo and Bayu, a failing journalist who lives in Jakarta. Connected through a series violent incidents, both men inexplicably start to feed off each other. (Not literally). Co-directors “The Mo Brothers” (Macabre, V/H/S/2) deliver an epic tale that works as action, suspense, and disturbing horror at the same time.
LOCATION: Room 14 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

4:30PM ASMODEXIA North American Premiere
(Director: Marc Carrete, Writers: Marc Carrete, Mike Hostench) Written by Mike Hostench (Deputy Director of Sitges Film Festival), Asmodexia documents five days in the lives of an exorcist and his granddaughter working in the Barcelona area. If you think you’ve seen every exorcism angle imaginable, prepare to be surprised. And a little grossed out.
LOCATION: Room 14 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

7:30PM SAVAGED Chicago Premiere
(Director: Michael S. Ojeda, Writer: Michael S. Ojeda)
A deaf girl is brutalized by a murderous gang who are then hunted by her when the bloodthirsty spirit of an Apache warrior inhabits her lifeless body. Local Chicago filmmaker, Michael S. Ojeda, brings home his fantastically brutal supernatural shocker, a cross between THE CROW & I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Definitely not for the squeamish (and that's a major compliment)!
LOCATION: Muvico Rosemont, 9701 Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018

Interactive Panels:

Saturday, August 23
2:00-2:45PM A CHAT WITH JOHN CARPENTER
Join us for this very special occasion as we honor the Master of Horror with a conversation spanning his entire career.
LOCATION: Room 4 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

3:00-3:45PM THE MANY TALENTS OF JON SCHNEPP
(Metalocalypse, Dethklok, The ABC’s of Death, The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened?)
Death Metal is the horror genre of the music industry and Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse may just be its greatest tribute ever. Join us as we chat with one of the masterminds behind that show (and so much more), as well as his discuss his upcoming feature: The Death of “Superman Lives.”
LOCATION: Room 14 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL

6:15-7:00PM BRUCE CAMPBELL VS. THE AUDIENCE
Best known for his roles on the big screen in cult classics Army of Darkness and Evil Dead, as well as his role as Sam Axe in the hit TV series Burn Notice, Bruce Campbell has proven to be a force to be reckoned with as an actor, director, and author. Don’t miss your chance to ask him your most interesting questions as he makes an appearance at Wizard World Chicago Comic Con.
LOCATION: Room 24 / Second Floor at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont IL